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Thread #142512   Message #3288383
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
10-Jan-12 - 07:09 PM
Thread Name: 'Purist - a pejorative?
Subject: RE: 'Purist - a pejorative?
untenable

On the contrary. I've spent many a happy thread here defending my position quite succesfully actually, and will continue to do so as long as the need arises - yeah, even as voice crying in the wilderness. Verily I sayest unto thou Folk in the 1954 sense is a matter of ill-founded faith; it a quasi-mystical gloss upon existing autonomous popular cultural art forms, musics & ceremonies born entirely from imperialistic paternalism and class condescension, and, as such, I quite joyfully contest that it exists at all.